Permeability impairment of a limestone reservoir triggered by heterogeneous dissolution and particles migration during CO2-rich injection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4614-4619

  Mangane, Papa O ^a   Gouze, Philippe ^a   Luquot, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

dissolution; high resolution X ray microtomograph (XRMT); particles migration

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLUTION; FLOODS; LIME; LIMESTONE; MICROPOROSITY; MICROPOROUS MATERIALS; X RAYS;

CALCITE DISSOLUTION; CORE FLOOD EXPERIMENTS; DISSOLUTION MECHANISM; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW PERMEABILITY ZONE; PERMEABILITY IMPAIRMENTS; UNDERGROUND STORAGE; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 84883698026     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50595     Document Type: Article

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